Ronald E. Dahl, MD

University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Pittsburgh, PA
Email: dahlre@upmc.edu

Biographical Sketch:
Ronald E. Dahl, MD, is the Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, and Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is a pediatrician with research interests in sleep/arousal and affect regulation and their relevance to the development of behavioral and emotional disorders in youth. His work focuses on early adolescence and pubertal development as a neurodevelopmental period with unique opportunities for early intervention. He co-directs a large program project of research on child/adolescent anxiety and depression with more than 15 years of continuous funding from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and he has received grants from The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) focusing on questions of neurobehavioral development and adolescent health outcomes. His research is interdisciplinary and bridges from basic work in affective neuroscience and development to clinical work focusing on early intervention for behavioral and emotional health problems. Dr. Dahl has participated in several interdisciplinary research groups, including The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development, and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Research Network on Tobacco Dependence. He has published extensively on adolescent development, sleep disorders, and behavioral/emotional health in children and adolescents